Re: dumbing down of academy awards song winners

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How far down the award winning songs have gone- all the wayto "I'm a
Pimp on the Street" (or something trashy like that). This is the
absolute bottom, the absolute pits, the absolute hell hole of
popular(?) music. We have met the enemy and it defeated us. A sad, sad
commentary on ....????.

Every day, millions of people listen to and enjoy works written hundreds
of years ago by Vivaldi, Mozart, Beethoven, etc. In another hundred
years,
millions of people will still listen to and enjoy those works. Do you
think
anyone will remember "Pimp on the Street" six months from now?

Yes, people still listen to works written hundreds of years ago. Just
like
how millions of people still listen to and enjoy works written several
decades
ago by the Beatles, Rolling Stones, etc. In another hundred years,
millions
of people will still listen to and enjoy the Beatles, Rolling Stones,
etc.

I doubt it. How many people listen regularly to music that was popular in
1906? What was popular in 1906?

Yes, there are oldies stations where people my age listen to music that
was popular in our youth. Do you think that when the boomers die off that
radio stations will still be playing music from the 1960's?

I've noticed that back in the Sixties, radio stations played a lot of rock
from the Fifties. As we got into the Seventies, fewer and fewer Fifties
tunes were being played. These days, the classic rock stations rarely play
anything pre-Beatles. Being a pre-teen in the Fifties, I thought there
were a lot of good tunes back then but nobody listens to them anymore.

Final point; in the mid-Eighties, my then teen-age son asked me, "What was
so great about the Beatles?" I told him you had to be there.

Paul

In the mid-70s I asked a fellow boomer friend, we were both undergrads, just
what was so great about the Beatles. Sure they were OK, and a few of their
tunes in the late '60s were kind of novelties, but "great"? It's not like I
missed their US debut in '63. He got huffy at the question, pissed him off.
A few years ago he was teaching a course on the Beatles as a non-major
course in addition to his "history of rock" class.

I still think the Stones were better.

Some years ago we had a guy named Tom Nixon with his show "The NIxopn Tapes"
and he often included old 78s he came across that prdfated WWI.



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http://depts.washington.edu/reecas/events/conf2002/papers02/Niekum.doc



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